Sina Koochakzadeh Mandek Richardson, V. Bhethanabotla, S. Sankaranarayanan
{"title":"Design of SH-SAW phononic devices for highly sensitive and ultra-low power sensing applications","authors":"Sina Koochakzadeh Mandek Richardson, V. Bhethanabotla, S. Sankaranarayanan","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6984971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6984971","url":null,"abstract":"SAW biosensors based on a shear horizontal wave have been developed to detect breast cancer markers, E. Coli bacteria, and in DNA hybridization studies. A current trend in these biosensing systems is to move away from clinical laboratories where expensive bulky equipment and highly skilled personnel are needed and move to point-of-care-testing (POCT). Monitoring a physiological signal such as blood glucose levels in a patient with a wireless sensor provides a good example. A major challenge to the incorporation of wireless sensors for biosensing/medical applications is power consumption. Inspired by the concept of phononic crystals (PCs), we incorporate microcavities in the form of periodic inclusions in a SAW devices made of 90 ° ST-X Quartz and 36° YX LiTaO3. We utilize a three-dimensional (3-D) finite element model (FEM) to compare insertion loss (IL) and mass sensitivity of SAW sensors having microcavities and show that significant improvements in sensitivity and power consumption can be obtained. The resulting metamaterial has properties different than those of the host material; in particular, density and elastic properties. To harness the potential of PCs within a SAW sensing device, we have systematically evaluated properties such as size, periodicity and nature of the filling materials because these affect the center frequency, power consumption, width of the bandgap, and sensor sensitivity among other things. Our simulation and experimental results suggest the possibility of tuning the acoustic band-gap and acoustic confinement to realize novel SAW and SH-SAW phononic sensors having low insertion loss and high sensitivity.","PeriodicalId":13244,"journal":{"name":"IEEE SENSORS 2014 Proceedings","volume":"42 1","pages":"213-216"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87490639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Smart contact lens using passive structures","authors":"S. Tinku, C. Collini, L. Lorenzelli, R. Dahiya","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6985453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6985453","url":null,"abstract":"The surface of our eye is an interesting chemical interface, which acts like a window into the human body. For example, intraocular pressure is a surrogate marker of cardiovascular health. Just like the blood, the eye tear contains many health parameters which could be used to diagnose. Therefore, a contact lens with integrated biosensors could provide health professionals with a new tool for research studies and for diagnosing diseases in a novel way without traditional lab works. For this reason, the smart multi-purpose contact lenses have recently attracted attention. Motivated by this fact, we aim to integrate biosensors on contact lens to sense the eye tear film solution. In this work we aim to report the patterning of gold electrodes on PDMS. The micro-fabrication techniques are discussed together with various characterization techniques performed on the electrode patterns.","PeriodicalId":13244,"journal":{"name":"IEEE SENSORS 2014 Proceedings","volume":"340 1","pages":"2107-2110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76037755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An autonomous and energy efficient Smart Sensor Platform","authors":"M. Merenda, C. Felini, F. D. Della Corte","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6985226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6985226","url":null,"abstract":"A novel Wireless Smart Sensor Platform compatible with EPCglobal Class-1 Gen2 readers was developed. The platform is comprised of a five stage Dickson voltage multiplier, a dynamic impedance matching network (DyIMN), an XLP microcontroller (MCU) and an RFID tag IC with an embedded temperature sensor. Device range operations have been assessed up to a distance of 1.5 m from the RF source, corresponding to a minimum RF input power of -10 dBm. Firmware optimization leads to a reduction of power dissipation below 500nW in sleep mode, allowing an optimal energy harvesting and storage from the RF source. The harvested power enable logical operations to be completed from MCU, thus enabling sensing and storing of temperature measurements directly into the user memory of an RFID tag. Also the efficiency of the energy harvester is calculated from the MCU, hence tuning the DyIMN dynamically to respond over a wide range of input power and load impedance. The experiments demonstrate the feasibility of the system to operate autonomously within the reading range of a standard RFID reader, that acts both as RF power source and receiver of the data stored in the tag user memory.","PeriodicalId":13244,"journal":{"name":"IEEE SENSORS 2014 Proceedings","volume":"5 1","pages":"1208-1211"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80123599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Brillouin distributed fiber sensors: Practical limitations and guidelines for the making of a good sensor","authors":"L. Thévenaz, M. Soto","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6984954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6984954","url":null,"abstract":"By analyzing the fundamentals of the operation of Brillouin sensors it will be shown that all efforts must be focused on obtaining the largest signal-to-noise ratio on the raw optical signal, which ultimately scales all performance of the sensor. Guidelines will be presented, together with recent research efforts to find out smart solutions pushing further the limits.","PeriodicalId":13244,"journal":{"name":"IEEE SENSORS 2014 Proceedings","volume":"266 1","pages":"146-149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77493842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Moya, X. Illa, E. Prats-Alfonso, N. Zine, G. Gabriel, A. Errachid, R. Villa
{"title":"Flexible microfluidic bio-lab-on-a-chip multi-sensor platform for electrochemical measurements","authors":"A. Moya, X. Illa, E. Prats-Alfonso, N. Zine, G. Gabriel, A. Errachid, R. Villa","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6985176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6985176","url":null,"abstract":"A novel polymeric microfluidic multi-sensor system has been developed using rapid prototyping techniques and low-cost materials which permits the dynamic online monitoring of several cell culture parameters in a wide range of biomedical applications. The multi-sensor is made of polymeric flexible substrate with integrated gold microband electrodes for electrochemical measurements of Dissolved Oxygen (DO) and Hydrogen (H+), Sodium (Na+) and Potassium (K+) cations. The platform integrates several working electrodes (WE), pseudoreferences (pRE) and a counter electrode (CE) for electrochemical detection. The bio-lab-on-a-chip allows the detection of changes in real time, with rapid response, allowing to measure small volumes and fast cell metabolisms changes. The reliable analytical performance of the platform in in-vitro conditions has been demonstrated. DO was detected with activated gold electrode, and H+, Na+ and K+ were detected with the developed ion-selective microelectrodes (μISE) using electropolymerized polypyrrole (PPy) film as a contact layer, allowing a good performance of the sensor.","PeriodicalId":13244,"journal":{"name":"IEEE SENSORS 2014 Proceedings","volume":"157 1","pages":"1018-1021"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79952774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Sanchez, C. Zamarreño, C. Zamarreo, M. Hernáez, I. Matías, F. Arregui
{"title":"Exhaled breath optical fiber sensor based on LMRs for respiration monitoring","authors":"P. Sanchez, C. Zamarreño, C. Zamarreo, M. Hernáez, I. Matías, F. Arregui","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6985209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6985209","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, the fabrication and characterization of a small and portable exhaled breath sensor based on Lossy Mode Resonances (LMR) is presented. Tin oxide (SnO2) coatings fabricated onto optical fibers are used as LMR supporting coatings. The principle of operation is based on the measurement of refractive index changes by the LMR device (with an average sensitivity of 8355 nm/RIU) originated by the condensation of micro water droplets in the surroundings of the SnO2 coating during the breath natural process. The sensor shows a repetitive response with less than 100 ms of response time and a wavelength shift of 150 nm from inhalation to exhalation.","PeriodicalId":13244,"journal":{"name":"IEEE SENSORS 2014 Proceedings","volume":"48 1","pages":"1142-1145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88573906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Debourg, A. Rifai, H. Aubert, P. Pons, I. Augustyniak, P. Knapkiewicz, J. Dziuban, M. Matusiak, M. Olszacki, D. Lavielle, C. Chatry
{"title":"Wireless passive high-doses radiation sensor","authors":"E. Debourg, A. Rifai, H. Aubert, P. Pons, I. Augustyniak, P. Knapkiewicz, J. Dziuban, M. Matusiak, M. Olszacki, D. Lavielle, C. Chatry","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6985215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6985215","url":null,"abstract":"The high dose measurement techniques are of the great interest in nuclear engineering for both, industrial and academic community. Related to these very harsh environment, today sensors solutions are based on external post analysis that not allow real time monitoring. Wireless monitoring of fully chipless passive sensors has been demonstrated for the first time using miniaturized HPD (Hydrogen Pressure Dosimitry) solution. We obtained micrometric silicon membrane deflection for several ten of kGy using 6MeV electron beam.","PeriodicalId":13244,"journal":{"name":"IEEE SENSORS 2014 Proceedings","volume":"84 1","pages":"1165-1168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77142019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Cao, C. Jebali, A. Kouki, Shreyas K. Thakar, C. Nguyen, Smitha M. N. Rao, J. Chiao
{"title":"Development of a laser micro-machined interdigitated capacitive strain sensor for structural health monitoring applications","authors":"H. Cao, C. Jebali, A. Kouki, Shreyas K. Thakar, C. Nguyen, Smitha M. N. Rao, J. Chiao","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6985360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6985360","url":null,"abstract":"Monitoring of structural health plays a crucial role in condition-based maintenance and prediction of unsafe or damaged infrastructures. We have developed an interdigitated capacitive (IDC) strain sensor integrated in a wireless monitoring system that could be used for structural health monitoring (SHM). The 125-μm thin brass IDC sensors were fabricated by laser micromachining followed by an encapsulation in a deformable polymer. The wireless monitoring system was implemented using a commercial wireless module Texas Instruments eZ430-RF2500 for use with multiple sensors simultaneously. A graphical user interface (GUI) was developed to store data and perform real-time analysis remotely. The wireless communication distance was up to 35 m inside buildings. The sensors were characterized and the entire system was demonstrated with both single and dual sensors. Our system is also capable of multi-modality sensing for continuous and real-time monitoring.","PeriodicalId":13244,"journal":{"name":"IEEE SENSORS 2014 Proceedings","volume":"78 1","pages":"1741-1744"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77191163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Mahdavi, Gilberto Guerra, Hailey McCurry, S. Pourkamali, R. Abdolvand
{"title":"Piezoelectric resonant MEMS balances with high liquid phase Q","authors":"M. Mahdavi, Gilberto Guerra, Hailey McCurry, S. Pourkamali, R. Abdolvand","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6985413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6985413","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents low motional resistance piezoelectric MEMS resonators with the highest quality factor (Q) in water reported to date that can be used for direct biomarker or chemical detection in liquid media. Thin film Piezoelectric-on-substrate (TPoS) resonators operating in higher order lateral bulk acoustic modes are designed and fabricated, and their performance as mass balances in water is characterized. Q up to 312 and motional resistance as low as 662Ω were measured in water for devices with resonant frequency of 11MHz. To characterize resonator mass sensitivities, a SiO2 passivation layer on top of one of the resonators was slowly etched in several consecutive steps and frequency shifts were recorded showing of 33.4 cm2/ng. Higher order mode operation and relatively large size of the devices (high volume/surface ratio) along with wide gaps between the resonating body and the substrate are considered to be the main factors minimizing viscous damping in liquid.","PeriodicalId":13244,"journal":{"name":"IEEE SENSORS 2014 Proceedings","volume":"177 1","pages":"1948-1951"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77369361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A statistical temperature sensor","authors":"M. Hofer, C. Boehm","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6985471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6985471","url":null,"abstract":"The physical effect which is used in this type of temperature sensor is the temperature coefficient mismatch of transistors. The basic cell for evaluating the effect is a bi-stable cell. For instance this could be an SRAM cell. After powering up the circuit such a cell provides either a 1 or a 0 at its output. In the case that such a bi-stable cell is used as a temperature-sensor, a well-designed cell bases its decision on the mismatch of two NMOS transistors (N1 and N2). The threshold voltage of NMOS transistors is decreasing over temperature. The amount of change is mainly defined by the coefficient KT1 (see BSIM). It turns out that there is a mismatch on KT1 between the different transistors. Thus it may happen that the startup value (or initial value) may change over the temperature. If a huge number of cells is used an accurate value of the temperature can be given. Once a startup vector at a well-defined temperature is defined, the temperature difference can be derived by measuring the Hamming distance (HD) between the reference vector and the output at the actual temperature.","PeriodicalId":13244,"journal":{"name":"IEEE SENSORS 2014 Proceedings","volume":"16 1","pages":"2179-2182"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87676980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}